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Click Once doesn't create StartMenu entry and Shortcut on Windows 7 x64

I've application that I deploy to share with ClickOnce so other users can install it and use it on their own machines. It worked fine till i noticed that when i install this app on my own machine (Windows 7 x 64) it doesn't add StartMenu (even thou it installs correctly and I have it in Control Panel / Programs). I didn't had that proble...

Clickonce intranet application trust

Hi, we have a VSTO outlook add-in we'd like to silently deploy to everyone via AD. I'm signing the App with a "Code signing" certificate (requested certmgr from AD). If I add this certificate to my Trusted Publishers, then I can silently install the signed app via the VSTOInstaller.exe (with the /S switch). We don't want to have to in...

How do I keep .NET applications pinned to the Task Bar during AutoUpdate?

When an application deployed by ClickOnce AutoUpdate is automatically updated on Windows 7, the application becomes unpinnned from the taskbar. Is there a way to stop it from becoming unpinned? ...

running .net application over a network

Hello, I need some advice please. I need to enable a .Net application to run over a network share, the problem is that this will be on clients network shares and so the path will not be identical. I've had a quick look at ClickOnce and the publish options in VS2008 but it wants a specific network share location - and I'm assuming thi...

Visual Studio 2008 ClickOnce cannot find exe in obj\Release

Project Output Path of the the main application is set to ......\bin\Release\ and was published flawlessly by ClickOnce before. For some strange reason, ClickOnce now fails with the following error: Could not find file 'obj\Release\EMS.OCC600.Infrastructure.Shell.exe'. c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Microsoft.Common.targe...

"Invalid provider type specified" when signing clickonce manifest in VS2008

I have a certificate issued by a CA on our intranet (it's a V3 sha1 pfx file). When I use this in the signing part of my clickonce (vsto addin) project, I get the error: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\OfficeTools\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Office.Office2007.targets(250,9): error MSB3482: An error occurred ...

Clickonce Online Only Uninstall

Is there an established way to uninstall an application that was deployed via ClickOnce using the Online Only method? I found it's location buried deep in the %APPDATA% tree, but I want to make sure I back it out all the way without creating future problems when I reinstall it. ...

Clickonce Https error please help

Hello, I have big problem when I am trying to deploy my app over clickonce. I have this error: An error occurred trying to download 'https:// I think there is problem with SSL certificate, becose is signed for diferent domain. SSL certificate is signed for pipni.cz and i have url https://someserve.com/cliconce Is there any solution? ...

Weird behaviour of the app.config deployment after updating it.

I moved some hardcoded settings to a custom Section (so I did not use the <appSetting> tag) in the app.config of my ClickOnce application. When updating, the clients got an error stating that the server gave a 404 not found error for the file "myapp.exe.config.deploy". Browsing on the server I did find the changed app.config there, only...

ClickOnce App won't start up under a given profile

This issue has come up 3 times in our environment. After installing the clickonce application, I expected it to startup automatically (as I have it set to do after install completes) but it did not. I try running the app from the shortcut and it brings up the "Launching Application" dialog but then immediately closes and the applicatio...

msbuild/clickonce publish files generated during the build

As a part of my build process I generate some files that should be included when creating a clickonce deployment. Here is a blog post of someone telling you how to include items that's not part of the project. However, as someone mentions in the comments of that blogpost, it won't update the deploymentmanifest when you do it in the "Be...

ClickOnce and mageUI adding custom file folder problems

What I do: Publishing .Net 3.5 application via VS, or msbuild (whatever), and now I need to insert to the published application separate directory (Modules - not added as a reference to the project - our project architecture does not allow this). So I'm copying the folder to published location then runs mageUI.exe select the application ...

How to completely wipe a previous ClickOnce installation?

I have a curious problem: My app is distributed through ClickOnce. I recently installed three new clients on a new location. They worked. After an update however, all old clients worked fine, but the three new clients did not. As my code is swallowing an exception somewhere I have been unable thusfar to pinpoint where the error lies. Wh...

How to do a javascript redirection to a ClickOnce deployment URL?

I have a ClickOnce application used to view some documents on a website. When connected, the user sees a list of documents as links to http://server/myapp.application?document=docname. It worked fine until I had to integrate the website authentication/security system into my application. The website uses a ticketing system to grant acces...

ClickOnce Deployment online questions

Hi all, Bit of a strange question, but how do ClickOnce deployments work from a web site? I seem to be having some problems with this. Basically, the setup file will download when you click the "install" button, but then some files are missing. Do you need to be on a Microsoft server to run ClickOnce deployments? I usually do deploymen...

c# clickonce events?

Is there an event fired straight after or during a clickonce update that I can overload or subscribe to? ...

Why doesn't my ClickOnce deployment pick up the latest changes to the application?

I have a WinForms app which is deployed to a local network drive (as 'Online Only') via ClickOnce. This has been working fine but today I made some changes to the application and attempted to ClickOnce deploy it to a separate network location (to use as a test system) rather than the current production location. ClickOnce publishes suc...

Using Application Settings and reading defaults from app.config

Hi, I need to deploy a Windows Forms application using ClickOnce deployment. (VS2008, .NET 3.5) And I need to provide a configuration file for this app that any user can modify. For this reason, I am using Application Settings instead of standard appSetttings in app.config so I can separate the the user config from app config. see http:...

publish windows application - ClickOnce Deployment

Is it possible to publish windows form C# application to a folder inside a web-dav server. How can I achieve that..any help is highly appreciated. ie want to deploy Windows application, via a web page through ClickOnce (publishing using the publish tab in project properties in visual studio) ...

Multiple ClickOnce applications associated with the same file type

I have multiple .Net applications that read the same file type, but when deployed with ClickOnce, the file association in Windows is made to "ClickOnce Application Deployment Support Library", which is what actually launches the program. But once the first .Net application is installed on the workstation, subsequent applications can't b...